North Korea Mega Thread

[Yank2133]

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Jesus...

Good luck walking this back.

This is why you don't put mentally unstable/incompetent people in position power.

[Yank2133]

If North Korea attacks us, I don't see why fire and fury isn't appropriate.  We should avoid war at all costs, but if it comes down to it, as in North Korea attacks us, Trump is right.

People who are complaining about retaliatory strikes are wrong.

Everyone knows this.

The issue is Trump's threat. He played into NK's hands with this kind of talk that he won't follow through.

He is to dangerous and stupid to be president. Get him the **** out of there.

[Yank2133]

Its far too late to be planning a preventive war. As much as we hate it, the status quo seems like the best option. Let North Korea wall themselves off with nukes if it saves Seoul IMO.

Realistically, this seems like the most likely option imo. The US has lived with a hostile power having the capability to launch a nuclear weapon on the US mainland before, and North Korea is never going to launch a missile against any other country because they know that their regime won't survive the war. I don't see why some here are so ready for the US to start a war...  

Why Trump wants to is pretty obvious:

Nah.

He has no clue what he is doing and always falls back to his first instinct which is to attack.

There is no grand strategy at play here.

[Yank2133]

If North Korea attacks us, I don't see why fire and fury isn't appropriate.  We should avoid war at all costs, but if it comes down to it, as in North Korea attacks us, Trump is right.

People who are complaining about retaliatory strikes are wrong.

Everyone knows this.

The issue is Trump's threat. He played into NK's hands with this kind of talk that he won't follow through.

He is to dangerous and stupid to be president. Get him the **** out of there.

We bombed Syria when no Americans were attacked. We will most certainly bomb North Korea if they, God forbid, attack us

NK will never bomb us, but they will continue to threaten us. And Trump promised retaliation if they continued to do so.

Again, he is playing right into NK hand's and the perception of the US being all bark and no action.

  

[Yank2133]

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lol.

Again, good luck walking back that rhetoric, Mr. President.

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lol.

Again, good luck walking back that rhetoric, Mr. President.

Yes let's blame the president of seven months for some madman planning something they had talked about for years.

Yes, I blame him.

He played right into their hands with his reckless rhetoric.

[Yank2133]

This board is literally insane right now. North Korean is threatening Americans and you shameless people are still complaining about trump

What part of he made it worse do you lackeys not understand?

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No.

He basically said he will bomb the **** of them if they continue to make threats.

It is an utterly foolish statement because the US will not see it through.

[Yank2133]

From 2013:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-questions.html

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These threats of pre-emptive strikes happened under Obama as well. Nothing new.

We know that.

So why the hell is Trump engaging them now?

[Yank2133]

Do conservatives actually trust Trump to lead America safely and effectively through a war with a country like North Korea? That's a serious question. We all have seen Trump behave, all the lies he tells, the erratic decision making, the knee-jerk reactions that had zero forethought. I get that I see Trump differently than a Republican does, but Trump's absurd, often-unhinged behavior should make everyone, including conservatives, nervous as hell in this situation.

And on a personal note, I'd like to state that it currently my dream that we go through at least one Republican administration that doesn't drag us into war with someone. I mean for the love of god, we are barely even done with Iraq and Afghanistan!

Iraq was entirely unnecessary. However, in this instance we actually do have an imminent and credible threat. It parallels to Kennedy's administration with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In the coming months, it will need to be addressed in some manner.

There is a big difference between a country trying to obtain Nukes and one having them 90 miles of your coast.

[Yank2133]

Do conservatives actually trust Trump to lead America safely and effectively through a war with a country like North Korea? That's a serious question. We all have seen Trump behave, all the lies he tells, the erratic decision making, the knee-jerk reactions that had zero forethought. I get that I see Trump differently than a Republican does, but Trump's absurd, often-unhinged behavior should make everyone, including conservatives, nervous as hell in this situation.

And on a personal note, I'd like to state that it currently my dream that we go through at least one Republican administration that doesn't drag us into war with someone. I mean for the love of god, we are barely even done with Iraq and Afghanistan!

Iraq was entirely unnecessary. However, in this instance we actually do have an imminent and credible threat. It parallels to Kennedy's administration with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In the coming months, it will need to be addressed in some manner.

There is a big difference between a country trying to obtain Nukes and one having them 90 miles of your coast.

Not really, it only would take an estimated 30 minutes to reach Los Angeles.

We aren't even sure NK has the capabilities to even hit US mainland. In the Cuban Missile Crisis, we knew that they could hit every major city in the country besides Seattle.